Spartiti per pianoforte

Each of the 'Three Japanese Miniatures' is a new challenge to the pianist: In each piece, a different playing technique is developed in a subtle and concentrated way.

A quartet of paintings by the American Mark Tobey that displays expanses of white in various shades provides the inspiration for this solo piano work. The images from the paintings are translated into...

This short piano work is one of Hesketh's most successful, taken from his opera The Overcoat - it would be an ideal opener to any recital programme.

Huw Watkins is one of the UK's foremost pianists, and he also teaches composition at the Royal College of Music . Four Spencer Pieces are beautifully written and would be a useful addition to any adva...

Huw Watkins is one of the UK's foremost pianists, and he also teaches composition at the Royal College of Music . Four Spencer Pieces are beautifully written and would be a useful addition to any adva...

In his programme note, Hesketh describes a conceit as an extended metaphor which can govern part of or an entire poem thereby leading to a more sophisticated understanding of the subject. Within the 2...

Watkins' 'Four Inventions' evolved from the composer's conversations with writer Rhett Griffiths who commissioned the work about his poem 'The Sibling Solution'. The poem is included with the publicat...

Le Vieux Sourd (The Old Deaf One) was Debussy's nickname for Beethoven. The piece is a setting of Auld Lang Syne which Beethoven also arranged.Gerald Barry (2012)

Written at the same time as the composer's Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal), Bryars' Ramble on Cortona is the first piece the composer has penned for solo piano in his esteemed career. Like his piano...